IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S., including a closer look at the privacy conundrum facing the advertising technology industry and potential solutions available.Full story
The European Commission announced a partnership with Caribbean and Latin American nations called the "EU-LAC Digital Alliance." Countries joining the alliance include Argentina, the Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay, and the alliance is open to all countries in the region.
Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority announced a new partnership with Google to support the agency's privacy-enhancing technology sandbox initiative. The effort will help companies "protect user privacy and be equipped with tools to continue (to) access data without third party cookies." The IMDA-Google partnership is open to all Singapore-based businesses.Full story
The BBB National Programs' podcast "Privacy Abbreviated" recently hosted IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, to discuss the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Zweifel-Keegan discussed the new framework's impact on U.S.
Center for Digital Democracy Executive Director Jeff Chester said commercial surveillance in streaming video, as well as artificial intelligence, are key issues for Hollywood unions. "The unions deserve to capture a piece of the data-driven 'pie' that will further drive industry profits. But there's more at stake than a fair contract and protections for workers," he said.
U.S. physicians using artificial intelligence technologies, like chatbots, may be violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, ScienceBlog reports.
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A report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization warns use of educational technologies might be putting children's privacy at risk due to a lack of industry oversight, The Markup reports. Educators say it can be worth asking edtech vendors to strengthen standard contracts in areas like data privacy.
The Court of Justice of the European Union's recent decision that a competition authority can determine data protection issues is noteworthy for the advertising industry, Lewis Silkin Senior Associate Ali Vaziri, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, said.
A U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing 25 July featured witness testimony from Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio and University of California Berkley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences professor Stuart Russell, each of whom discussed a range of legal and national security concerns surrounding the development of artificial intelligence.